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Being a food critic can be a harrowing ordeal. Last March, I decided to make my rounds, trying out different YouTube chef’s recipes at my home and rating them as I would any restaurant’s food on my blog, ‘Fancy Forks‘. Of course, this method of cooking the food myself is very unorthodox for a food critic, but I decided my culinary skills were at least on par with the intended audience, so it felt…

Why Dell’s PowerEdge VRTX is Ideal for Virtualization

I recently had a customer looking for 32 Ethernet ports on a 4 server system to drive a virtualization platform.  At 8 x 1GbE per compute node, this was a typical VMware virtualization platform (they had not moved to 10GbE yet) but it’s not an easy task to perform on blade servers – however the Dell PowerEdge VRTX is an ideal platform, especially for remote locations. (more…)

An Introduction to Dell PowerEdge VRTX

Kevin Houston is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of BladesMadeSimple.com.  He has over 15 years of experience in the x86 server marketplace.  Since 1997 Kevin has worked at several resellers in the Atlanta area, and…

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